Five Jewish scientists have been given the Lenin Prize, one of the most important a wards in the Soviet Union, according to a Moscow report in the Communist Yiddish press here today.
The five named are: M. Shlomovitch, a scientist in an electromagnetic laboratory attached to the USSR Academy of Science; Jacob Dzipkine, a director of technical sciences; S. M. Feinberg, chief of one of the atomic energy sections; Madame Biderman, dean of an advanced technical school; and A.J. Levine, identified as a scientist who contributed toward the construction of the new Russian plane, the llyuishin-18.
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